Hi Chris, I would be willing to write such a PEP. It will take a while though, I am not fast at those kinda things.
> Currently, fractions.py imports decimal.py, mainly (purely?) for the > sake of being able to construct a Fraction from a Decimal. The decimal > module is *large* and has other reasons for not becoming builtin too, > so ideally, the two should be decoupled. I started the decoupling as bpo-44115, aka GH-26064 https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/26064 I would be happy about your comments there. I actually have a new idea about how a fraction literal could look like: just write 2/3 as opposed to 2 / 3, and you get a fraction. So: no spaces: fraction, with spaces: float. I hear you crying "but that's illegal, whitespace should not matter!", to which I respond: >>> 3.real File "<stdin>", line 1 3.real ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax >>> 3 . real 3 Cheers Martin _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/3XWRLCHB4UQT25Z7RKU2DE2NE7ALC26D/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
